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QUADERNO CULTURALE Queens College Italian Program Newsletter | Numero 7 | Department of European Languages & Literatures | Early Spring 2016 Guida alla lettura: An introduction to Numero sette Il settimo numero di Quaderno Culturale The seventh issue of Quaderno contiene informazioni sui corsi offerti Culturale features an outline of IN THIS ISSUE dal programma di italiano al Queens courses offered by the Italian College nel semestre primaverile 2016: Program at Queens College in Spring Career Quest corsi di lingua e letteratura italiana 2016: Elementary, Intermediate a livello principiante, intermedio, e and Advanced Italian language and 4 avanzato; corsi “writing-intensive” literature courses; writing-intensive insegnati in inglese; corsi “Euro,” e courses taught in English; Euro corsi di Master. Nella sezione Career courses; and master’s-level courses. Quest, vi invitiamo a conoscere la In Career Quest, we spotlight the Italian Trade Commission attraverso Italian Trade Commission through the gli occhi di una studentessa di italiano eyes of a student minoring in Italian Studenti dal vivo che ha avuto l’opportunità di visitare who had the opportunity to visit this questa agenzia l’estate scorsa. Ivette organization last summer. Ivette Maldonado, segretaria amministrativa Maldonado speaks with Quaderno 5 del dipartimento di lingue e letterature Culturale about her administrative europee, parla con il Quaderno delle work in the Department of European sue esperienze lavorative al Queens Languages and Literatures. Peter College. Un nostro studente nel major Arfsten, an Italian major, describes di italiano, Peter Arfsten, ci fa il his year studying at the Conservatorio resoconto dell’anno accademico che ha Invito alla lettura di Musica di Perugia. For Invito alla trascorso al Conservatorio di Musica di lettura, Luisanna Sardu reviews Perugia. In Invito alla lettura, Luisanna Nicola Lagioia’s La ferocia, which Sardu recensisce il nuovo romanzo di 8 won this year’s Premio Strega. In Nicola Lagioia, La ferocia, vincitore del Premio Strega 2015. Nella rubrica Andiamo al cinema! our film critic Andiamo al cinema! Luca Zamparini, Luca Zamparini reviews Nanni recensisce l’ultimo film di Nanni Moretti’s latest movie, Mia madre. Moretti, Mia madre. Inoltre, questo Last but not least, this issue covers numero di Quaderno Culturale contiene Prof. Eugenia Paulicelli’s most recent Amministratori informazioni sull’ultimo libro della prof. publication, Rosa Genoni: La Moda dal vivo ssa Eugenia Paulicelli, Rosa Genoni: è una storia seria, Milano Expo La Moda è una storia seria, Milano 1906 e la Grande Guerra; a series 14 Expo 1906 e la Grande Guerra; sugli of events and lectures organized by eventi organizzati dal Prof. Hermann Prof. Hermann Haller in October for Haller ad ottobre per la Settimana della the Settimana della lingua italiana nel lingua italiana nel mondo e sugli eventi mondo; and events and publications e le pubblicazioni organizzati dal John organized by the John D. Calandra D. Calandra Italian American Institute. Italian American Institute. Buona lettura! Buona lettura! The Queens College Italian Program Karina F. Attar and Morena Corradi [email protected]; [email protected] In Spring 2016, the Italian Program at Vittorini, Moravia, Calvino, Tabucchi, Queens College is offering 12 different and Goldoni. Students will also courses (with multiple sections for view and discuss an Italian film that language courses) at the undergraduate features Italian dialects combined level and two master’s-level courses. with standard Italian. Queens College students can major (36 credits above Italian 203) or minor • Italian 231: Skills and Art of (18 credits above Italian 112) in Italian. Translation I. The course introduces Students majoring or minoring in other students to the techniques and disciplines may elect to satisfy the problems of Italian-English and Queens College language requirement English-Italian translation through by taking any one of our courses taught discussions of the linguistic and in Italian.* A double major in Italian and cultural issues affecting meaning Secondary Education certifies students transfer from the original text. Texts to teach at the high school level. Our will be selected from literature required and elective 200- and 300-level (prose, poetry, criticism), journalism, courses give students the opportunity and specialized subject areas pertinent to expand their knowledge of Italian to students’ academic and/or language, literature, cinema, and culture. professional interests. Courses designated “W” are writing Italian Language Courses • Italian 346/Italian 711: Italian intensive; completion of two W Poetry from its Origins to courses (in any discipline) satisfies the • Italian 111: Elementary 1 (4 sections; the Trecento. Open to both Queens College writing requirement. for complete beginners) undergraduate and graduate students, Successful completion of College this course satisfies one of the 300-level • Italian 112: Elementary 2 (2 sections; Writing I (English 110) and College course requirements for the Italian for students who completed one to Writing II are prerequisites for major. Readings will include poetry two years of high school Italian) enrollment in W courses, which satisfy by major and minor Italian authors, either the Pathways Literature (LIT) • Italian 203: Intermediate 1 (2 sections; such as San Francesco d’Assisi, requirement or the PLAS European for students who completed two to Cecco Angiolieri, the scuola siciliana, Traditions (ET) and Reading Literatures three years of high school Italian). Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarca. (RL) requirements. Two courses taught • Italian 204: Intermediate 2. This Showcasing the diversity of voices, in English may count toward the Italian required course for the Italian major styles, registers, preoccupations, and major, and one course taught in English prepares students for advanced courses contexts in Italian poetry from its may count toward the Italian minor. In on Italian culture and literature through origins to the fourteenth century, the addition, the Department of European review of grammar and syntax, as well course helps students develop an Languages and Literatures will offer as through discussion of literary and appreciation for the aesthetic, linguistic, one “Euro” course (required for the cinematic texts. The focus in this and formal aspects of medieval Italian Italian major). iteration of the course is on the Italian poetry, as well as an awareness of the culture and language of food. Students historical and cultural contingencies • Italian 41W: Italian Philosophical will also produce a booklet with all that shaped its composition. Fiction. “Philosophical fiction” is a loose definition that can apply to any their favorite recipes and memories. * Any one of the courses described above (from 111 to 346) can serve to satisfy the work that reflects on life/death, Advanced Courses in Italian Queens College language requirement. time/space, subjectivity, perception, Language and Literature and representation of the outside Undergraduate Courses world(s). This course focuses on three • Italian 208: Survey of Italian Taught in English of the most significant philosophical Prose from Boccaccio to Calvino. novels of modern Italian literature This course, required for the Italian In Spring 2016, the Italian Program will (Pirandello’s The Late Mattia Pascal, major, introduces students to selections offer three W courses on masterpieces Svevo’s Zeno’s Conscience, and Eco’s of Italian prose masterpieces by of Italian literature in translation, and The Name of the Rose), novels that Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Verga, Pirandello, one W course on Italian cinema. revolve around personal identity and 2 the relation between the individual encounter with gendered alterity in • Euro 202: The Romance and society, politics, and knowledge. Italian literature by focusing on its Languages in Europe and creative and imaginative dimensions as Beyond—Between Regional, • Italian 41W: The Emotions of well as its theoretical conditions of History in the 20th-Century National, and Global. This course possibility. Primary readings will include will introduce students to the great Italian Novel. This course focuses works by Compiuta Donzella, stil novo linguistic diversity of contemporary on 20th-century novels by Italian writers, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Europe, from its standard languages female writers in which historical and Catherine of Siena, Ariosto, Tasso, to regional and local varieties. political events play a central role in Veronica Gambara, Isabella Morra, Students will learn to appreciate shaping the fictional narrative. Vittoria Colonna, Diodata Saluzzo the similarities and differences of Ginzburg’s Lessico familiare, Morante’s Roero, Foscolo, and Leopardi. the grammar and lexicon of French, La Storia, and Sapienza’s L’arte della Italian, Spanish, and other Neo-Latin gioia embed history while at the same • Italian 250W: Filmopolis: Urban languages. We will study the origins of time challenging official, political, Spaces on the Italian Screen. Romance languages from Latin, their and historiographical accounts, The French critic André Bazin once gradual evolution through contact which typically exclude emotions said that Italian cities are by definition with other languages, the question as well as “marginal” people. The cinematic. He was referring to the of standard versus non-standard kind of knowledge we can gain from impact of urban space